John ehehaedt



(No M od'el.)

J. BHRHARDT.

SKYLIGHT.

No. 283,332. Patented Aug. 14, 1883.

liravezadazvf UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN EHRHARDT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOB OF TWO-THIRDS. TO HERMAN HOPMANN AND CHARLES HOPMANN, OF SAME PLACE,

SKYLIGHT.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,332, dated August 14, 1883.

' Application filed April 30,1833. (no 11101181.)

To all wh'om it Jan/coy concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN EHR-HARDT, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Skylight-Bars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure l. is a view in perspective of the improved bar; Fig. 2, a vertical cross-section in the line of one of the pairs of the suspendingstraps; and Fig. 3. asection similar to the last, but showing the straps turned down.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts. i

This improvement relates to the mode of constructing that portion of the bar which is beneath the glass.

A A represent the panes of glass. B represents the improved bar. The two plates 1) b of the bar are bent, respectively, at

I), again at b and again at b; but from the lastnamed bend, b the plates are not extended to meet the plates 12 I) again, a space, bfiat each side of the plates 6 I; being left, which forms the entrance to the trough G, which, by the bending of the plates at b b" If, as described, is formed at each side of the plates b b. The panes A A rest upon the bends b b, respectively, and the edges to a of the panes respectively abut a gainst the plates 1) b, respectively.

D represents the cap. Itis held in place, as'shown, by the strips E E, which are rivoted to the plates 2; Z), and turned down, as shown in Fig. 3, upon the cap. Such moisture and dirt as pass the panes, between them and the plates 1) b, are caught in the troughs O O. The troughs are kept from opening away from the plates 2) b by means of the strips F F,wh ich,

at various intervals throughout the length of The combination of the panes A A, the plates 7 b b, bent toform the troughs C G, open at b 12*, the cap D, and the strips F F, substantially as described.

JOHN EHRHARDT.

Witnesses (l. D. Moonv,

J. K. WORTHING-TON. 

